Produce graduates with sound hands on knowledge for animal farming with adequate know how on animal health and value addition and to cater to the demand for specialized knowledge and skills in the livestock sector to enhance animal productivity and adding value to livestock production in commercial and cottage industry levels. Course of Study: Animal Science
Degree: BASc. (Bachelor of Animal Science)
Focus: Produce graduates with sound hands on knowledge for animal farming with adequate know how on animal health and value addition. Eg. Poultry, Piggery, Sheep, Goats, Cattle, Dairy. This course offers a combination of knowledge and skills in veterinary science and animal husbandry together with the required knowledge in agriculture.
Entry Requirement: Students from Biological Science stream
Department: Department of Animal Science

Academic ProgramYear Semester 1 Semester 2
First Year Essential Skill Development
(15 Credits)

Broad General Education
(15 Credits)
Core course units in Animal Science
(2 Credits)
Second Year

Objective is to provide a thorough background in principles of the subject areas in Animal Science.

Core Course units in Animal Science (30 credits) & Essential Skills (2 Credits)
Third Year
Relevant Studies in selected areas of Animal Science
Core course units
Animal husbandry course units
Breeding and management
Ornamental fish management
Dairy chemistry
Meat science
Egg product technology
Inland fishery
Fourth Year Advanced Studies in a chosen field
Local Needs
Global Trends
Value Addition to natural resources
Evolving marketing trends

Industrial Training (Begining of the academic year)

Research Project (Endof the academic year)

Contact information:
State and CSCC. Summer course work is required during the third and fourth years of the program. Students also complete four 150-hour internships—one at Ohio State’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital and three at private clinical practices, research centers, emergency/specialty hospitals, diagnostic laboratories or zoos.
Honors & Scholars Programs
Incoming first year students in the top 10% of their high school graduating class with an ACT composite of 30 or higher or combined SAT Critical Reading and Math scores of 1340 or higher are offered admission to the University Honors program. The honors program is designed to challenge superior ability students. It is based on the concepts of flexibility in course selection, accelerated or advanced classes, and an honors research or scholarly project. Course flexibility enables the honors student to achieve breadth and depth in the academic program and to define academic growth in a more personal way. Honors program students are given priority scheduling. Students completing honors courses have these designated on their transcripts with an “H” before the course, and those who complete the honors program satisfactorily, meeting all requirements, will graduate “with distinction” in their area of specialization. Enrolled students may also apply to the Honors program by submitting an Individualized Honors Curriculum after earning at least a 3.5 CPHR on 30 hours at Ohio State. Student must also maintain at least a 3.5 CPHR to remain in honors.
Co-Curricular Opportunities
Students receive “hands on” experience through course work in animal facilities, research laboratories, internship programs, Australia Study Abroad Program, General Livestock Selection and Evaluation Team, Dairy Cattle Selection and Evaluation Team, Poultry Selection and Evaluation Team, Equine Selection and Evaluation Team, Meat Evaluation Team, and Academic Quadrathlon.
Career Prospects in Animal Sciences
Students may prepare themselves for a variety of careers in science, business, and production agriculture. For example, graduates find employment in research laboratories, biotechnical industries, chemical/pharmaceutical companies, genetics and nutrition companies, allied industry associations, government agencies, and in meat science/food processing organizations.
Many students continue their education for a professional or graduate degree. Veterinary medicine and graduate studies in the animal sciences are the two most common pursuits for further education, but students can continue their study in law, human medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, physical therapy, nursing, and optometry.
Beginning annual salaries for recent graduates average $30,000 annually. Salaries are determined by the candidate’s skills and the responsibilities of the job.

For graduate training, the department has animal research and teaching units located conveniently to the main campus. Those units include sheep, poultry, purebred beef, dairy, swine, and horse teaching and research units and the beef, forage, range and cow-calf research units. In addition, laboratories in both Call and Weber Halls contain state-of-the-art equipment that allow the student access to most analytical techniques required for their research.

Graduate training in the Department of Animal Sciences and Industry is organized within six functional discipline groups including animal breeding and genetics, food science, meat science, monogastric nutrition, physiology, and ruminant nutrition.

For graduate training, the department has animal research and teaching units located conveniently to the main campus. Those units include sheep, poultry, purebred beef, dairy, swine, and horse teaching and research units and the beef, forage, range and cow-calf research units. In addition, laboratories in both Call and Weber Halls contain state-of-the-art equipment that allow the student access to most analytical techniques required for their research.

Graduate training in the Department of Animal Sciences and Industry is organized within six functional discipline groups including animal breeding and genetics, food science, meat science, monogastric nutrition, physiology, and ruminant nutrition.

Animal Science Emphasis
Graduate students in the Animal Science emphasis receive broad based training resulting in experiences that qualify them for many agricultural jobs. Areas of emphasis include nutrition, breeding and genetics, physiology, production systems, and meat science/muscle growth. Research problems may involve beef cattle, sheep and biochemical or other properties of agricultural products. Supporting course work may be taken from Animal Science, Range Science, Biology, Wildlife Management, Biochemistry, Statistics, Plant Sciences, Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, and Economics.

Research laboratories are available in the department and specialized equipment is also available through cooperation with other departments.

The department conducts cooperative research with the U.S. Livestock and Range Research Station at Miles City, Montana, and the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station at Dubois, Idaho. Facilities for the maintenance of beef cattle and sheep are available at the Red Bluff Research Ranch, 30 miles west of Bozeman, the Fort Ellis Research Center, near Bozeman, and the Northern Agricultural Research Center at Havre. The main station has facilities for sheep, horses and beef cattle (a cattle feedlot and nutrition laboratory). A wool laboratory is located on campus.

Range Science Emphasis
Research and training opportunities in the Range Science programs are diverse, and students with a wide variety of backgrounds, goals, and educational needs are accepted. Major areas of study are range ecology, habitat management, watershed management, grazing management, monitoring, riparian ecosystems, measurements, and plant-animal (livestock and wildlife) interactions. A graduate degree in range science prepares for careers in rangeland management, wildlife management, habitat management, natural resource conservation and restoration, research, land-use planning, and consultation. Research facilities include the Red Bluff Research Ranch, several research centers of the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station, U.S. Livestock and Range Research Station at Miles City, Montana, and the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station at Dubois, Idaho. Cooperative projects with ranchers and federal and state agencies are also conducted. Supporting courses at the graduate level include botany, wildlife biology and management, soils, animal science, earth science, plant science, statistics and biochemistry.

Please feel free to contact any advisors whose research may interest you.

Interdisciplinary M.S. Degree in Land Rehabilitation
Animal and Range Sciences participates with the interdisciplinary M.S. Program in Land Rehabilitation. The program offers advanced study in rehabilitation of disturbed lands. Site revegetation, soil remediation, riparian zone restoration, stream channel restoration, investigation of impacted geologic resources and remediation of contaminated sites are included in areas of study. Emphasis is placed on developing a broad understanding of soil, plant, and hydrologic processes. Students may focus in a subject area of direct importance to land rehabilitation, such as plant ecology, soil sciences, hydrology, geology, geography, biology, or range science.

The M.S. degree in Land Rehabilitation is offered through each of the following departments: Animal and Range Sciences; Biology; Civil (Bio-resource) Engineering; Earth Sciences, and Land Resources and Environmental Sciences. Please refer to College of Agriculture, where a more detailed program description can be found.